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REVERSIBLE CAR SEAT.

Patented Jun 26, 1894.

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ROBERT HOMER WEATHERLY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE SOARRITT FURNITURE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

REVERSIBLE CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,173, dated June 26, 1894.

Application filed January 6, 1893. Seria1llo.457,419. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT HOMER WEATH- ERLY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St..Louis, State'of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Oar-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the kind of reversible car chairs that have the back connected with the seat by two pairs of intersecting supporting arms or links on opposite sides of the chair, the parts being constituted simultaneously to raise and lower the front and rear ends of the seat to obtain its proper inclination on reversing the back without moving the seat horizontallyin the main frame of the chair.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple form of this kind of chair, and it consists of the construction and combination of parts herein described and particularly poi nted out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved chair. Fig. 2. is an enlarged side view of the upper part of the supporting frame, showing the vertical slots and the supporting lugs therein. Fig.

3. is an enlarged vertical section drawn on line on. w. of Fig. 6. Fig. 4.. is an enlarged edge view of the lower end of one of the intersecting links. Fig. 5. is an enlarged detail of that part of the link shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6. is a detail elevation of a portion of the upper part of the supporting frame. Fig. 7. is a top plan view, in slightly reduced size of the seat.

A. is the supporting frame, preferably made of iron, forming the main side supports of the seat 13. and the seat back 0. The back is connected with and supported by the intersecting links D. and D. said links being pivoted to the seats through lugs H and H. and to the chair back at 3 and 4.

The supporting frameis provided with vertical slots E and E, and stop lugs F and F, the slots allowing the upward and downward movement of the front and rear ends of the seat when anintersecting link is brought into contact with a stop lug by the reversal of the seat back. The lugs H. H, which support the seat and to which the intersecting links are pivoted at K. form an integral part of plate G, said plate being screwed, or otherwise secured, to the end of the seat frame. The links, which are pivoted at their lower ends to the supporting lugs, are held in position by cap L. the screw M passing through the cap and through the central aperture M, in the lug and plate, terminating in the side of the seat frame.

As shown in the drawings, one of the links at each end of the seat and at diagonally opposite corners is provided with a shoulder D and on the supporting frame above the vertical slots are lugs or stops N arranged to be immediately over the shoulder D" when the arms are in their normal position so as to hold the depressed end of the seat firmly in place. I v

The operation of my improved seat is as follows: The seat back, supported by the intersecting link, is carried over from side to side, the reversal changing the relative positions of the links. The link D. which may be called the front link as shown in its position in Fig. 1, is brought into contact with the stop F. This stop acts as a fulcrum pointwith the link as a lever-for lifting the front of the seat, securing for the seat the requisite inclination by the time the seat back has reached the limit of reversal, thereafter forming a shoulder, or support, to the link, thus retaining the front of the seat in its elevated position. Itwill thus readily be seen that by my construction and arrangement of part, besides producing an exceedingly economical form of chair, I am enabled to unite and support both the back andseat by means of the intersecting links, and at the same time reverse the back and tilt the seat without moving the latter horizontally.

Whatl claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, to wit: frame A having vertical slots E E on opposite sides thereof, the seat frame, lugs H H secured to the seat frame and movable laterally in said slots, back 0, intersecting arms or links D D pivoted to the back and lugs H H, stops F F on the frame A arranged to serve as a fulcrum for the arms only when the arms are nearly in their normal position to raise the front end of the seat and to support the arms when in the normal position, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, to wit: frame A having vertical slots E E on opposite sides thereof, the seat frame, lugs H H secured to the seat frame and movable laterally in said slots, back C, intersecting arms or links D D conneoted with the back and lugs H H, stops F F for the arms, a shoulder D on one of each pair of the arms, and lugs N on the frame A arranged so as to be over the shoulder D when the back is in its normal position and adapted to hold the links or arm having the shoulder from movement, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 21st day of Decemher, 1892.

ROBERT HOMER WEATIIERLY.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. ANDERSON, CHARLES H. WAGNER. 

